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Peer reviewedWilliams, Martha E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1977
This paper discusses network sharing of resources for on-line data base searching. Uses of on-line searching, equipment, personnel, search strategy development requirements, costs, and advantages of such services are also considered. (Author/KP)
Descriptors: Databases, Networks, Online Systems, Resources
Peer reviewedMcIlvane, Mary E.; Tonkery, Dan – Journal of Biocommunication, 1978
Presents an overview of the current operation of the AVLINE system, an online data base maintained by the National Library of Medicine containing references to over 5,000 nationally available nonprint materials. (VT)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cataloging, Databases, Medical Libraries
Download full textPettibone, Timothy J.; Roddy, Mary E. – 1987
An inter-university network of computer centers, the "Because It's Time NETwork" (BITNET), is described. Specific guidelines and format requirements for using BITNET, with sample commands, are presented. More than 1,800 computers at over 600 institutions of higher education and research centers in Europe, Asia, and North America are…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Mail, Higher Education
Sherrod, John, Ed. – 1975
The papers in this volume constitute the proceedings of a symposium which examined the history, state-of-the-art and future utility of computer-based information systems. Emphasis is placed on the economics and potential uses of on-line interactive systems and their accompanying computer networks. Conceptual and descriptive papers dealing with the…
Descriptors: Computers, Conference Reports, Data Processing, Databases
1971
Computers have effected a comprehensive transformation of chemistry. Computers have greatly enhanced the chemist's ability to do model building, simulations, data refinement and reduction, analysis of data in terms of models, on-line data logging, automated control of experiments, quantum chemistry and statistical and mechanical calculations, and…
Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Computer Assisted Instruction
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY. – 1975
The papers and discussions of the 1975 Pacific Region meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery are presented. Topics included (1) the current and emerging state of the art in data management software and hardware, (2) relational systems with particular attention to new developments in systems for relational data bases, (3) advances in…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Mayhew, Lewis B. – 1975
This monograph is an overview of the present and possible future trends in networking, the use of computer communications technology to facilitate the sharing of information and computer resources over great distances. The text reviews networks already being used by universities to share instructional resources and computing ability, and by…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Coordination
